{"id":135309,"date":"2021-08-17T16:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=135309"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:50:57","slug":"covid-19631-new-cases-reported-tuesday-msian-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=135309","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 19,631 New Cases Reported Tuesday &#8211; Msian Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of 19,631 new COVID-19 cases were reported nationwide in the past 24 hours, which is a reduction of 109 cases compared to Monday\u2019s total of 19,740, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis takes the total number of infections in the country, so far, to 1,444,270,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Selangor continued to chalk up the highest number of cases with 5,753, followed by Sabah (2,103), Kedah (1,863), Kuala Lumpur (1,765) and Johor (1,309).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Penang recorded 1,275 cases, Kelantan (1,268), Perak (1,101), Sarawak (835), Pahang (670), Melaka (623), Terengganu (498), Negeri Sembilan (490), Putrajaya (41) and Perlis (37).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No new cases were reported in Labuan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of 19,631 new COVID-19 cases were reported nationwide in the past 24 hours, which is a reduction of 109 cases compared to Monday\u2019s total of 19,740, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. \u201cThis takes the total number of infections in the country, so far, to 1,444,270,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":97816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}